Well, Ken, to a point, your are very wrong and young folks and rodeo. We are presently watching, nightly, a pro-rodeo in Houston, TX. A $2.17 million dollar purse rodeo. On opening night, this past Monday, the NRG Stadium, was packed. It looked more like the Houston Texans (NFL) were playing, not a rodeo going on. And, also have to remember, there are colleges/universities that have a rodeo team. Colorado State University, here in Ft. Collins, has a rodeo team made up of students from the university. In fact, at the San Antonio Rodeo, $10,000 college scholarships were given out to certain students. Rodeo may not be popular, or known, in Maine, but other parts of the U.S., they are very, very well known. We don't know what we are going to find, but do know, wherever we live next, HAS to be better than where we are now. Has to be!
Believe it or not, John, we've met people who live in Estes Park and have to drive 40 some miles to get to a Walmart, which is right here. Estes Park isn't a retirement community, and some who live there, have to drive the 40 miles each way to work here. And, Estes Park can get more snow than we even get, because it's the entry to Rocky Mountain National Park.
Given that you have stated, in other posts, that rodeo people always act the way you'd like people to act, I don't know what your problem is.
Well, what I meant was, Ken, the rodeo association monitors and may even sometimes get a complaint report what a member says, like saying the "f" word, and that person could get a suspension and/or even a fine. One thing is fact, rodeo people aren't perfect, no matter what I have stated in the past. But, for us, rodeo, ranch, farm folks are much easier for us to get along with than city people. Rodeo, ranch, farm folks talk our language. IOW, what we sometimes talk about.
Cody, man, you haven't changed your rap for years, maybe decades. Don't you believe in personal growth, no matter what age one may be? I can pull up your old posts from the other senior forum, and they're identical to what you still post, to this day! Wow, just wow...... Find a community of farmers and ranchers who are ordained clergy, who never cuss, and who attend local rodeos on weekends. You will then have reached your personal Nirvana. Thing is, you'll still find things to complain about, because you're an inveterate whiner. I'm positive that this forum will be "blessed" with scores of your posts, in the near future, that go on and on about how you want, and need, to move. I suppose in another five years, you may actually do so. Until then..... oh, brother!
Another member who complains about someone complaining, but what are they doing...........complaining about a member! Geshhhhh!! Like I've told others, if you don't like my threads/posts, put me on "Ignore" and you won't see them. Simple and easy!
I have lived in six states, and in multiple cities and towns in some of them, and have enjoyed my experience in each of them, and that includes five cities and towns in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where many of my neighbors didn't even speak English, and few spoke English as a first language. These have included towns like the one I grew up in, with only a couple of hundred people, to larger cities like Pasadena, Long Beach, Anaheim, Brownsville, and McAllen, and several in between. There were things that I disliked about these places, but I have never felt like I was unwanted or unwelcome - by individuals perhaps, but not on a large scale. I hated the condominium that I lived in for my first six months in Brownsville, Texas, but I moved to a better place once my lease was up, and it was pretty much just the condo management that I hated. Once I decided I was going to move when my lease was up, I ignored her. I no longer like living in big cities, but I did when I was in my 20s, and there are advantages. I'd like to live in Boston for a few months, but I wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life there, and I don't even like driving through New York City. I would suggest appreciating the good, trying not to let the rest of it get to you too much, and moving if you can afford it and want a new experience, but don't expect everyone to cater to you.
Loveland, Colorado isn't a "big city" by any manner of the words. It's population is 82,000, but growing much more than Seniors here want it to. However, Jacksonville, Florida has almost 1 million people. Lots of size difference between the two. Basically, Ken, for us, and let me say this AGAIN, for many Seniors that live here, and we've talked to, they see very little "good" at what happened to this small city. To us, it's obvious, that we didn't check out the area more than we did, when visiting here in 2018. Just how can a person tell what age bracket lives in an apartment complex?? This complex is like a magnet for people in their 20's. It's pretty unbelievable! There are so, so many young people here that look like they came directly from Los Angeles's "hippy" type area. When a person see's so many things they really don't like about where they live, as in city and people, it can be very, very hard to see the "good". IOW, Ken, you have many, many members on this forum that totally dislike Biden and how our government is run, but can do absolutely nothing about it............but, complain. So, when the members complain about my complaining, they should all look in the mirror at what they truly do. One word, they "complain".
@Cody Fousnaugh - perhaps if you stopped always telling us about your need to move - and just moved and then say - hey got a new place. This month I will have been on this forum for 5 years, and at least two years of that was spent listening to why, and how, and where you think you might want to move. You are right about rodeos - they are the big thing in many areas, and Texas is one of them. Having been around playdays and rodeos growing up, rodeo people are true to their rodeos and each other. They just Click with each other. But most have others outside interests, and know how to think outside the arena. Considering it will be months before you even can move, let this topic lay low, then once you have moved, you can tell us about the new place, well maybe.
First of all, I've been with this forum since 2015 and we have only moved once since 2015. That was from Florida, back to Colorado. The rodeo people we know, haven't got time to "think outside the arena". Not that much, anyway. To be in, stay in, or get into the Top 15, a rodeo contestant has to keep going from one rodeo to another. Since January 2022, there have been four big rodeo's that many rodeo contestants have to go to for the big money. The major rodeo going on right now is Houston with a $2.17 million dollar total payout to contestants. There isn't much of an "off-season" in rodeo. And, when there is, Top 15 contestants, and close to that, just keep on practicing their event. They don't have a whole of "off-time" to enjoy something besides rodeo. I was never around rodeo growing up, but wife and I are most definitely involved, as serious fans, today. To a point, Hedi, it's hard to let a thread "lay low", when someone is constantly either teasing us about moving or even ridiculing us about another move. In either case, I'm just not the type of personality that can stand by and let people do either. The old saying, "play nice or don't play at all", really doesn't go with any public forum. Someone is always ridiculing another poster for asking or saying something.
We continue to do searching along the Eastern Slope, aka Front Range, but, unless it's in a fairly unsafe area, monthly apartment rentals are awfully high. But, we are now researching Carson City and Reno area. It is most definitely "cowboyish" there and Reno has a yearly big/major rodeo. Almost the same elevation as here and with 4-seasons.